Sam Bickley
Quality Assurance Lead, Unity Game Studios
Stratford-on-Avon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Bickley is a seasoned quality engineering lead with seven years in game-focused software QA and a career at Unity shaping multi-platform release quality for console, web, Linux and automotive targets. Currently leading QA for Unity Game Studios, he brought Survival Kids to launch on Switch 2, navigating Nintendo’s release process and driving test automation and process improvements to ensure timely, high-confidence releases. He has progressed from hands-on testing and technical art roles into people leadership, managing teams and cross-studio partner collaborations to scale QA across complex pipelines. Sam combines a practical games-design education with a background in technical art and animation, giving him a strong appreciation for both engineering rigour and creative production constraints. Colleagues value his pragmatic focus on shipping—improving repeatable test planning and automation that reduce friction between development and certification.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC, National Diploma for IT Practitioners, BTEC, National Diploma for IT Practitioners at Stratford-upon-Avon CollegeBSc, Computer Games Design, BSc, Computer Games Design at University of Staffordshire
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Github Skills (11)
shader10
scriptable10
render10
post-processing10
pipeline10
unity3d10
azerothcore7
python6
parsing6
roguelike5
rendering3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
t-macnaga/ScriptableRenderPipeline
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Scriptable Render Pipeline
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
renderpipelinescriptable
balaam/tiny_rogue
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Unity Tiny 7 day roguelike
Contributions:57 commits, 29 PRs, 56 pushes in 3 days
unity-tinyazerothcoretinydayroguelike
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